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Pantagruelist humour is not in him, except now and then in its grimmer and less catholic variety or manifestation.
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century George Saintsbury 1889
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It has a large fancy map for a frontispiece; there are fairies in it, and a sort of _pot-pourri_ of queernesses which might not impossibly have come from the author or editor of the _Moyen_ in his less inconveniently ultra-Pantagruelist moments.
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 George Saintsbury 1889
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Pantagruelist of the Wilderness; and, despite their normal solemnity and impassibility, all roar with laughter, sometimes rolling upon the ground till the reader's gravity is sorely tried, at the tales of the garrulous Barber and of Ali and the
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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a reverend — is scurvily entreated by some Pantagruelist of the
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Francis as a man of letters, his possession not merely of consummate wit, but of that precious thing, so much rarer in French, actual humour; his wonderful influence on the future word-book and phrase-book of his own language, nay, not every one who would go almost the whole length of the most uncompromising Pantagruelist, and would allow him profound wisdom, high aspirations for humanity, something of a complete world-philosophy -- would at once admit him as a very great novelist.
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 George Saintsbury 1889
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a woman, the votive offering of a stout Pantagruelist, all are here.
Droll Stories — Complete Collected from the Abbeys of Touraine Honor�� de Balzac 1824
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a woman, the votive offering of a stout Pantagruelist, all are here.
Droll Stories — Volume 3 Honor�� de Balzac 1824
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